In the original, Kevin was bratty, yet still sympathetic, and the Wet Bandits were the clear villains. Here, the kid is SO obnoxious, that you find yourself rooting for the antagonists to win!
That's the whole point isn't it. From the start we already know they are not bad guys and definitely not going to jail. So it can only go the other way.
In my case I didn't know who to root for. Like I get it poor kid having his kid fears but on other not so smart parents trying to save their family. Both sides having some nonsense going on, both having backstory to make us not hate them. I would stop watching but I wanted to see if there were some snippets that would bring original movie's christmas spirit for me. There were few short ones but yea...this is not Home alone movie to me; it's okay-ish for what it is but yeah it's not Home Alone. It's not what I expected when I decided to watch this.
They miss the mark when they decided to make the villains relatable, not every movie needs a relatable villain, this is the perfect example: Home alone just needs bad guys that do bad stuff
Its so hilarious that modern Hollywood spends so much time trying to make villains “sympathetic” that they completely overlook the main character or what should be the “hero” of the story and end up making them obnoxiously unlikable, resulting with weird mixed messages being sent to the audience
And that's why I like this movie its different in that way. Some jokes didn't work though like the dress and some lines didn't work overall a good movie with some issues.
i really like the skeleton of this movie and i think a better writer woulda pulled it off. you can't have the kid overhear 1 sentence of a conversation 2-3 times and think they're gonna kidnap em. fix that part. have the british kid hide the doll at the start, apologize for it, and i really like this movie.
Home Alone 2 is actually my favorite. I know it rehashes a lot of ideas, but the idea of Kevin fighting to save sick children is great. I love the pigeon lady, and also the end with his mom is really emotionally satisfying.
home alone 1 - great classic set everything up home alone 2 - different scenery kevin is running all over the place home alone 3-4-5-6.... les just pretned it never existed.
I really liked home alone 2 too. The original Home Alone is a classic, but the second one was entertaining, and I liked how they rehashed the ideas and made them work with the hotel theme
Yeah, Home Alone is the original loveable classic. Home Alone 2 is actually better, but since it is the 2nd one people who already saw the first didn't feel the freshness of the premise. I feel like those who like the 2nd more probs saw it first or have seen both ALOT of times to the point where it didn't matter which was first, so the idea of freshness went away. The 2nd was seen as worse for awhile because it wasn't original, but over time matched up with the first because the originality was no longer an issue. When you see it every year originality matters less.
Here is why the original is better: In the original the characters were actually fleshed out and developed. Kevin was not a perfect kid (wasn't a Mary Sue), he started out as a brat but you understood why he was a brat. Then over the course of the film he had a little thing called a "character arc" and he realized how much he needed his family. This made him interesting, likeable and made you want to root for him. The burglars on the other hand were doing horrible things, we got to know them, they were also well fleshed out but at the end of the day they were terrible people which made it satisfying when Kevin tortured them. In Home Sweet Home Alone I was pulling for the burglars because all they were trying to do was get back something that was rightfully theirs, the kid Max was an annoying little shit who didn't have nearly the depth or the likability that Kevin had and I found myself pulling for the burglars to rip his fucking head off. Not to mention the dialogue was beyond unnatural, the acting was bad and there were so many call backs to the original that weren't earned nor were they needed, typical Disney these days.
Don't forget that some people also had to approve the scripts to the Home Alone sequels that didn't have Macauly. Those were just as bad as this new one.
@@fromis.9 And....? Of course we watched it. That's how we came to the conclusion that it's stupid and horrible. Would you rather people just criticize something without consuming it first? Is that what you do?
They took the most enjoyable aspect of home alone which is having criminals getting demolished by a child which is funny and turned it into something depressing by using people that are just trying to get back something they lost
I give them credit for recognizing that by having them not get arrested by the end, but it doesn't make the pain they go through any less sad. It just makes me wonder why they couldn't of just approached the kid and said "We think you have a doll that's valuable enough to save our house. Please give it back."
I admit I felt bad for the McKenzie’s as they weren’t true criminals they were trying to get their doll back thinking it was taken by Max when he took a soda not the doll.
Let’s be honest here. Pam and Jeff are the protagonists of this movie. They’re just two parents who need money in order to keep their house just so that they and their kids could have a place to live. As a result of that, you feel more emotion for THEM instead of the main character, Max, you know, the kid who’s home alone, THE ONE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ROOTING FOR? Unlike other films, in which the burglars more or less deserved what they got (First film, Wet Bandits tried to rob Kevin’s house, second film, the Sticky Bandits try to steal charity money meant to got to kids who desperately need it in a hospital, third film, four terrorists try to steal a chip that controls a missile for a North Korean terrorist organization, fourth film, Marv and his wife try to get revenge on Kevin, fifth film, three art thieves try to break into a house to steal a valuable painting and try to kill anyone who gets in their way), where whenever the robbers fall for the traps, it’s funny, here… it’s not funny. Especially when Pam starts CRYING over the fact that their kids will be forced to live on the streets just because they can’t pay their debts. This film kind of reminds me of the SpongeBob episode, One Coarse Meal. In that episode, Mr. Krabs tries to terrorize Plankton into committing suicide so that Plankton will no longer try to steal the Krabby Patty formula. Ignoring all the other major things the episode does wrong, this episode basically is saying, “It doesn’t matter what Mr. Krabs is doing here, he’s the hero, Plankton’s the villain, so if Mr. Krabs wants to drive him to suicide, that’s OK because he's the hero!” The fact is this idea DOES NOT WORK if you feel sorrier for the supposed “antagonist” of the story rather than the “protagonist”. As for Max, the main character, he’s overall pretty bland and lacks the charm of Kevin, or Alex from the first three films. Heck, even though 4 and 5 are hated by a lot of people, at least THERE they made it clear that the kid is the protagonist, and the bandits are the villains. I guess they wanted to mix things up with this film to have it stand out from the previous films, like having the villains be good because it’s Christmas and the important thing is family and all that, but the premise is way too mean spirited, and having Pam and Jeff suffering through the traps, while they are ALREADY SUFFERING FROM LOSING THEIR HOUSE AND NOT HAVING MONEY TO FEED THEIR KIDS is overall just way too depressing for me to laugh at.
The part revealing that the McKenzie’s had children of their own, and were losing their home due to financial troubles, was a major red flag right off the bat. That and how unlikable Max was when the audience was introduced to him. Absolute poor writing decisions.
I'm confused: they know a resident of the house is around (cos they deliberately decided Church time is a good time to break in) but if they know someone, anyone, is around, why don't they just wait for the resident to be home and knock on the door?!?!?! The only justification for breaking and entering would be that no one is around for several days and they're on a deadline to recover their property. They knew the kid was around, why didn't they just knock on the door and ask him? Even if he was stubborn they could threaten to call the cops since it would be a case of recovering stolen property, that would scare a kid into compliance if you had to stretch the plot. But then at the end they say the didn't realise the kid was home by himself, which means they were operating under the premise that some adults were around, and they still thought the best course of action was to break in and not knock on the door?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? What the hell? Talk about a forced plot!!!
@@rovhalt6650 it so is! I did find out from another video that the did try to speak to an old lady who they assumed was his grandma, but because she only spoke German, or assumed she only spoke German, that was the reason they opted to break in. That's still dumb cos under that premise you can still talk to the kid!!!
Leaving Home Alone at two films would've saved its legacy but when the original cast left Home Alone has been left to soppily rehash the same formula over and over with less and less soul each time.
The thing that's always bothered me about Home Alone 2 is that it focuses on mom again when it shouldve been more about dad. Dad screwed up this time. Not so much mom. And it wouldve helped develop dad more as a character
Let's face it, Disney's attempts to make their villains more human have been pretty hit and miss lately. This, Toy Story 4, and Mary Poppins Returns come to mind. At least their animated twist villains have an understandable method behind them. Frozen: Let's deconstruct our love at first sight trope. Problem: Hans suddenly being okay with killing Arendelle's princess comes out of nowhere, even if he was just marrying her for the throne. Big Hero 6: Let's give Hiro someone to parallel his grief and thirst for revenge. Problem: Why is Callaghan okay with killing his students, and didn't even bother to check if his daughter was alive. Zootopia: Let's further our message about prejudice by making the person who did it a cute sheep woman. The problem: We don't see much of Dawn's relationship with Lionheart to know why she's so against predators.
Especially when you take into consideration that unlike the burglars from the previous films who were only doing it because "WE WANT MONEY TO GET RICH" or in the case of 3, to working for terrorists, they're just two parents who want to pay off their debts just so that their kids could have a place to live. That's overall just depressing, and as a result, the traps scene - meant to be the comedic portion of the film, just like the other Home Alone movies - becomes overall just depressing and not fun to watch as you're rooting for the McKenzies instead of the main kid who's Home Alone - the one the film WANTS you to root for.
@@harrisonho8934 I wonder who the fuck thinking that the audience would relate to that spoiled brat. I have a very very strong feeling it must be self insert.
@@harrisonho8934 Exactly, like I couldn’t find a redeeming quality for the kid. Especially when he didn’t understand what a toy drive is and thinking that he’s a child in need… Plus the “meta” comment about leaving classics alone. Like, they should have left this alone.
I did like the Diet Soda bombs though. It seems like something a kid would actually come up with. And yes, even the bit where the bottle flies into Pam is realistic - people HAVE actually done that.
Filmmakers not all villains have to be understandable or sympathetic. What made the Wet Bandits work was that they were just bad guys robbing a house and all there is to it. Movies have been in the habit of doing this too much lately.
I feel like a movie about a married couple struggling at Christmas with Ellie Kemper and Rob Delaney would've been enough. It didn't need to have anything to do with Home Alone. From what the film presented of just their interactions and how they felt about their difficulties, it was all engaging enough to be its own movie.
2 and 3 are big contenders as my favorite. Because it’s not as widely discussed, I really like 3, not because it was new and didn’t strictly follow the McAllister arc, but because it had a funny and interesting story to tell that felt distinctly Home alone. You had a kid who was at odds with his neighbor who happened to look after him while recovering from Chicken pox. Pair that with workaholic parents and siblings who were at that teenage angst phase who lacked empathy, and you have a kid who had a lot to prove. Then you have the villains who were secret spies that were tasked with recovering a missile chip that would threaten American airspace. What made the whole thing mesh was the overall objective of who would end up in possession of said chip after it ended up in a toy car and getting swapped at the airport, prompting the spies to search every house. It might not be as popular, but 3 was indeed the last good Home Alone movie.
As I get older I appreciate villains who choose to identify themselves as evil instead of villains who think that they're good. Everyone wants to be good, that's boring. Why would someone want to be seen as evil? That's a more interesting question. I think that's why Joker is such a great movie. Arthur chooses to be evil because the 'good' people are selfish bullies who only care about building themselves up by hurting other people, admittedly mostly through apathy.
My ranking of all the Home Alone movies so far (you know they're gonna make another one in the future lol): 6.Home Alone 4:What a piece of garbage, I don't even have to explain why (Hint:"Kevin" "Marv") 5.Home Sweet Home Alone:(Posted my review of it somewhere in the comments) (Pretty bad, not as bad as Home Alone 4, but PRETTY BAD..) 4.Home Alone 5:This was a really "MEH" movie, once again it has more burglars, had some fun scenes and the traps were alright, don't hate it or like it, just MEH to me.. 3.Highly underrated movie actually, not nearly as good as Home Alone and Home Alone 2, but I actually had fun watching it, I like how they tried it with new characters and more burglars breaking in and tried to make it different (kinda). 2.Home Alone 2:Really love this sequel! Sure it's kind of a copy and paste of the first Home Alone, but I still love watching it, I liked how this time they had Kevin in New York City! The traps are also really good! Solid Great Sequel! Definitely a classic! 1.Home Alone:Best movie in the franchise, will ALWAYS be the best movie in the franchise.Classic holiday movie! Nothing can top it off!
Lowest to highest imo is Home Shit Home Alone (3/10), then Home Alone 4 (5/10), Home Alone 3 (7/10), Home Alone 1 (9/10), Home Alone 2 (9/10) has a slight edge over the first
Cute that you think Disney won't simply cut out the scene with the kid wearing a dress for the Chinese release like they did with the lesbian kiss from Rise of Skywalker. So brave of them.
I enjoy Home Alone 1 because of the atmosphere, pacing and positive moral message. Home Alone 2 I really enjoy Harry because of how resilient he is dealing with the traps and the his screams are legendary. Harry's screams to me are like the quick silver scenes in the newer x-men movies, they are the maraschino on top.
worst part of the movie is the doll plot: clearly the british kid had to have hidden the doll at the start of the movie...but instead they push it off onto a character with 0 screen time. all you had to do was have the kid say "you were kind of a jerk to me so i hid it in the closet", apologize, movie over. instead they do the goofy cgi shit... i still liked this a touch more than 4 but god damn it's rough.
This shouldn't be called Home Alone! The studio is trying to appeal to nostalgia (and failing miserably) but they are also trying to be politically correct (sorta)! The original was good, because there wasn't a worry if those traps were too dangerous or anything and the main villains were comical but also truly threatening!
Its called Home Sweet Home Alone, hence you were wrong from the start to think otherwise. They don't even care about you, just new generation of kids, and maybe the parents who happen to watch with them.
@@fromis.9No they weren’t. It has home alone in the name, if you are to blind to see, and it is even separated and in different text during the title sequence. I kinda do agree with the rest of your statement ( which is just a semi-restatement of the comment) but you really should observe the comment before replying.
@@BobBob-zh8ls its called home sweet home alone, not home alone 6 because they do not want people to think its just another carbon copy of the first one, by giving a twist to antagonist being the protagonist. everyone like you is blind to see the real meaning
part of the problem is There Aren't antagonists in this one. in the original, its pretty clear Harry and marv don't mind hurting Kevin Which becomes outright kill after going through the house. another mistake this one makes is while Kevin lives it up at first he Does start to miss his family halfway in. Kevin is a brat But a more realistic child overall. we never see that in this one. If anything he's worse for taking the toy from the church toy drive another point is the mother character. in the original, she could only get back to Pennsylvania not Chicago and is hitchhiking with john candy to get back. so she's doing a Hell of a lot more to get home faster
I know the point this time was to make the bad guys be the good guys, could have been balanced out so much better, as seeing characters your cheering for getting beat up all the time is not fun. I get it that, that is what home alone is. I just think they could have made it clear that the kid wasn't ALL bad as we first thought which would have allowed us to sympathise with both sides, and maybe it could have poked fun at how silly some of those traps were, honestly one of the best scenes to me was when the mum was fighting back with the bin lid blocking the shots. It could have easily been switched up that the "bad" guys were actually quite smart and didn't fall for such silly traps, which I think would have been a better choice.
A lot of problems with these movies nowadays is how mean spirited they are its all about selfish unlikable people with no endearing qualities as opposed to characters who are flawed but are still charming and likeable.
This kid was straight up trying to murder these people. I know he thought they were trying kidnap him but they tried to explain so many times and he wouldn’t listen. I mean he has the internet, he could have called the police or his relatives multiple different ways, the parents could have handled it a bunch of different ways too. The traps weren’t even funny, they just seemed painful to watch. At least Harry and Marv were immortal, I don’t know how these people survived 😂
Nothing beats the original and the second. I wish they never made this reboot, I loved Kevin and he was so iconic, but in this movie max is just a unloveable obnoxious kid.
I was so disgusted when they started using the old John Williams music, its so disrespectful to use such amazing music from the first two amazing home alone films to elevate this trashfire, and also who the hell were we supposed to be rooting for and booing for, The kid in this film really was the villain cause they made the "badguys" so understandable and sympathetic, like when they were getting hurt you felt so bad for them, this film was just so confused
I watched it and yeah it was so bad. I grew up with the original Home Alone since I was young, but this, this was so tough to get through. It was more bad than Home Alone 3, and while I haven't seen Home Alone 4 and 5, they can't be as bad as Home Sweet Home Alone. When the Home Alone remake greenlighted a couple of years, I was not excited and by golly that's what I got.
"Home Alone 4 and 5 can't be as bad" oh boy what do I tell you... Home Alone 4 is WAY worse than Home Sweet Home Alone, and I did not like Home Sweet Home Alone at all.
I think the first two are the best. The rest is pretty much the same story, that get’s worse by every sequel/reboot. At the second movie, despite being the same story as the first, it was in a different location and had Tim Curry!
I think they made the crooks more seen because they thought that the more lovable since Pam (Ellie Kemper who played in the office) is a lovable actress and they wanted to show the more lovable actors so that the audience might ignore the terrible plot and focus on the them instead, just my take on it
Bad is being stuck in traffic, bad is stubbing your toe, bad is your girlfriend being angry at you. This movie isn't bad its a damn dumpster fire and nobody deserves to watch this nightmare
It was honestly really disappointing, the acting was mid, the home alone boy hero was not likeable, way too many slow many slow motion shots, the "thieves" weren't really thieves, everyone was WAY too forgiving, it wasn't really funny, very few laughs, it focused more on the "thieves" than the boy who was home alone..damn. 😕
We don't need a 10 minute video explaining how bad this movie is when a 30 second advertisement did all that for us in the first place. There's only Home Alone and Home Alone 2. That's it. None of the other movies count
The trailer painted a pretty good picture of this disaster. I still agree with the kid when he said, “I don’t see why we have to share out house with every stupid relative we have” 🤷🏻♂️
Yeah the newest version was so awful! The reason behind the main character's motivations were just forced and convoluted. Also, Aisling Bea is Irish, not British. But yeah that kind of seemed weird to me too. This whole movie was a disaster and most of the acting was phoned in. Also, how did the neighbors not hear all the noise Pam and Jeff make? It's not like they were being quiet at all.
Honestly, I don't know why they thought humanising the "villain" is a good move. I mean if they hid the couple's intention and then reveal the twist at the end, sure, it might work and I might even laugh at what they had to go through but since I know who they are and what their motivation are, its kinda painful to see what they went through and I can't help it but root for "the bad guys"
Whyyyyyy!!! Why did Pete Holmes have to agree to do this, dammit! i mean i guess now he's immortalized in a home alone movie that i can see his point of view how cool that looks 10 or 20 years from now or something, but this just looks sooo baaaad, and now i gotta watch it cuz my boi Pete Holmes is in it, he's fkin hilarious, love the guy, uuughhhh!
I seen someone say that a good idea for a home alone movie would involve Kevin babysitting one of his brothers kids. And a couple of robbers try to steal from them, so Kevin teaches the kids how to build traps as they teach him about new age technology.
Im gonna say it, i didnt hate this movie, it wasnt a chore to watch, i was entertained, though im not saying its great, its only ok, but its not terrible, it has issues, you care more about the villans then the "main protagonist", i feel like most people hate the re makes because their so attached to the original
Well the movie keeps reminding us about the original. The entire point is for people to watch it because it had the branding of the original, so don't blame people for thinking about the original when they are watching this
It is not a movie I can fairly judge. It was meant for younger eyes. The OG and New York were classics for me. TBH even home alone 3 paved the way downhill. This movie... was made for money and not from passion. It is a No for me.
I watched Home Sweet Home Alone and it wasn't that good. For me, the best thing about that movie was seeing Buzz McAllister. It's a small role but it was great that an original Home Alone character was there. Funny enough, I did like Home Alone 3 but the original ones can't be beat. I still prefer the first Home Alone though.
Y’know what they should’ve done. They should’ve re-released the original home alone in cinemas for the thirtieth anniversary ( I know it’s the thirty first but because of COVID they couldn’t release it in cinema and you gotta release home alone during Christmas.) Far better than what we got and CHEAPER so I’m shocked Disney didn’t do it
I don't get why the kid in "Home Sweet Home Alone" was British either, yet lived in Chicago. If he was born in Great Britain, okay, but the filmmakers could have incorporated this kid not fitting in in America into the plot of the film.
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I hate the Home Sweet Home Alone movie
It was pretty cool to see Buzz McCallister again. Loved the part when he mention his little brother being home alone.
Coincidence? I don't think so XD
Yeah it was
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In the original, Kevin was bratty, yet still sympathetic, and the Wet Bandits were the clear villains. Here, the kid is SO obnoxious, that you find yourself rooting for the antagonists to win!
That's the whole point isn't it. From the start we already know they are not bad guys and definitely not going to jail. So it can only go the other way.
@@fromis.9 I was just about to say that, Looks like someone beat me to it.
And that's why I liked the movie for the most part.
In my case I didn't know who to root for. Like I get it poor kid having his kid fears but on other not so smart parents trying to save their family. Both sides having some nonsense going on, both having backstory to make us not hate them. I would stop watching but I wanted to see if there were some snippets that would bring original movie's christmas spirit for me. There were few short ones but yea...this is not Home alone movie to me; it's okay-ish for what it is but yeah it's not Home Alone. It's not what I expected when I decided to watch this.
At this point are they even antagonists lmao
They miss the mark when they decided to make the villains relatable, not every movie needs a relatable villain, this is the perfect example: Home alone just needs bad guys that do bad stuff
Its so hilarious that modern Hollywood spends so much time trying to make villains “sympathetic” that they completely overlook the main character or what should be the “hero” of the story and end up making them obnoxiously unlikable, resulting with weird mixed messages being sent to the audience
And that's why I like this movie its different in that way. Some jokes didn't work though like the dress and some lines didn't work overall a good movie with some issues.
i really like the skeleton of this movie and i think a better writer woulda pulled it off. you can't have the kid overhear 1 sentence of a conversation 2-3 times and think they're gonna kidnap em. fix that part. have the british kid hide the doll at the start, apologize for it, and i really like this movie.
Sometimes simple villains work but dont over do it and make them to simple as they can be extremely forgettable.
THEY MISSED THE MARK ON ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!.
Home Alone 2 is actually my favorite. I know it rehashes a lot of ideas, but the idea of Kevin fighting to save sick children is great. I love the pigeon lady, and also the end with his mom is really emotionally satisfying.
home alone 1 - great classic set everything up
home alone 2 - different scenery kevin is running all over the place
home alone 3-4-5-6.... les just pretned it never existed.
I really liked home alone 2 too. The original Home Alone is a classic, but the second one was entertaining, and I liked how they rehashed the ideas and made them work with the hotel theme
Yeah, Home Alone is the original loveable classic. Home Alone 2 is actually better, but since it is the 2nd one people who already saw the first didn't feel the freshness of the premise.
I feel like those who like the 2nd more probs saw it first or have seen both ALOT of times to the point where it didn't matter which was first, so the idea of freshness went away.
The 2nd was seen as worse for awhile because it wasn't original, but over time matched up with the first because the originality was no longer an issue. When you see it every year originality matters less.
I wish I could visit New York city again
The first Hone Alone is my favorite and Hone Alone 2 is my second favorite. You liking Hone Alone 2 better than the first one is understandable.
Here is why the original is better: In the original the characters were actually fleshed out and developed. Kevin was not a perfect kid (wasn't a Mary Sue), he started out as a brat but you understood why he was a brat. Then over the course of the film he had a little thing called a "character arc" and he realized how much he needed his family. This made him interesting, likeable and made you want to root for him. The burglars on the other hand were doing horrible things, we got to know them, they were also well fleshed out but at the end of the day they were terrible people which made it satisfying when Kevin tortured them. In Home Sweet Home Alone I was pulling for the burglars because all they were trying to do was get back something that was rightfully theirs, the kid Max was an annoying little shit who didn't have nearly the depth or the likability that Kevin had and I found myself pulling for the burglars to rip his fucking head off. Not to mention the dialogue was beyond unnatural, the acting was bad and there were so many call backs to the original that weren't earned nor were they needed, typical Disney these days.
Exactly! As a kid I just let random action happen everywhere. Car chases, just nothing but explosion done.
Exactly. Home Sweet Home Alone makes us like the burglars, so the violence against them doesn't feel justified.
I feel bad for the kids that are going to be taken to see this movie, rather than just re-watching the classic
It’s exclusively on Disney Plus
@@GhazMazMSM its exclusively in my trash can/ toilet or nearest dispensary
@@litcostello1223 hahaha frontal bro
@@ngills6218 More like rear. ;)
it isn't in the cinema it is disney plus only
I can’t believe someone approved the movie script for the new home alone 🤦♂️
Don't forget that some people also had to approve the scripts to the Home Alone sequels that didn't have Macauly. Those were just as bad as this new one.
You still watch it.
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And....? Of course we watched it. That's how we came to the conclusion that it's stupid and horrible. Would you rather people just criticize something without consuming it first?
Is that what you do?
@@commentcopbadge6665 you are definitely someone that criticize it before watching it
@@fromis.9
LMFAO!!!! And you are someone that displays total lack of awareness.
They took the most enjoyable aspect of home alone which is having criminals getting demolished by a child which is funny and turned it into something depressing by using people that are just trying to get back something they lost
I give them credit for recognizing that by having them not get arrested by the end, but it doesn't make the pain they go through any less sad. It just makes me wonder why they couldn't of just approached the kid and said "We think you have a doll that's valuable enough to save our house. Please give it back."
Remember when people hated home alone 3. Yeah. I miss home alone 3
Home alone 3 was kinda fun!
It at least felt like a Home Alone movie.
I remember 3 being surprisingly well done. Now part 4 on the other hand is a freshly plopped pile of 💩.
@@TalentCaldwell there's a part 4??
I always liked HA 3, it wasn't that bad.
I admit I felt bad for the McKenzie’s as they weren’t true criminals they were trying to get their doll back thinking it was taken by Max when he took a soda not the doll.
Let’s be honest here. Pam and Jeff are the protagonists of this movie. They’re just two parents who need money in order to keep their house just so that they and their kids could have a place to live. As a result of that, you feel more emotion for THEM instead of the main character, Max, you know, the kid who’s home alone, THE ONE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ROOTING FOR? Unlike other films, in which the burglars more or less deserved what they got (First film, Wet Bandits tried to rob Kevin’s house, second film, the Sticky Bandits try to steal charity money meant to got to kids who desperately need it in a hospital, third film, four terrorists try to steal a chip that controls a missile for a North Korean terrorist organization, fourth film, Marv and his wife try to get revenge on Kevin, fifth film, three art thieves try to break into a house to steal a valuable painting and try to kill anyone who gets in their way), where whenever the robbers fall for the traps, it’s funny, here… it’s not funny. Especially when Pam starts CRYING over the fact that their kids will be forced to live on the streets just because they can’t pay their debts. This film kind of reminds me of the SpongeBob episode, One Coarse Meal. In that episode, Mr. Krabs tries to terrorize Plankton into committing suicide so that Plankton will no longer try to steal the Krabby Patty formula. Ignoring all the other major things the episode does wrong, this episode basically is saying, “It doesn’t matter what Mr. Krabs is doing here, he’s the hero, Plankton’s the villain, so if Mr. Krabs wants to drive him to suicide, that’s OK because he's the hero!” The fact is this idea DOES NOT WORK if you feel sorrier for the supposed “antagonist” of the story rather than the “protagonist”. As for Max, the main character, he’s overall pretty bland and lacks the charm of Kevin, or Alex from the first three films. Heck, even though 4 and 5 are hated by a lot of people, at least THERE they made it clear that the kid is the protagonist, and the bandits are the villains. I guess they wanted to mix things up with this film to have it stand out from the previous films, like having the villains be good because it’s Christmas and the important thing is family and all that, but the premise is way too mean spirited, and having Pam and Jeff suffering through the traps, while they are ALREADY SUFFERING FROM LOSING THEIR HOUSE AND NOT HAVING MONEY TO FEED THEIR KIDS is overall just way too depressing for me to laugh at.
The part revealing that the McKenzie’s had children of their own, and were losing their home due to financial troubles, was a major red flag right off the bat.
That and how unlikable Max was when the audience was introduced to him.
Absolute poor writing decisions.
The film is a social propaganda piece. It's all to try and normalize sympathy with people who "loot buildings."
Ah yes, the first thing a 12 Year old Boy would do when his parents aren’t Home.
Put on his Moms Clothes…
I'm confused: they know a resident of the house is around (cos they deliberately decided Church time is a good time to break in) but if they know someone, anyone, is around, why don't they just wait for the resident to be home and knock on the door?!?!?!
The only justification for breaking and entering would be that no one is around for several days and they're on a deadline to recover their property. They knew the kid was around, why didn't they just knock on the door and ask him? Even if he was stubborn they could threaten to call the cops since it would be a case of recovering stolen property, that would scare a kid into compliance if you had to stretch the plot.
But then at the end they say the didn't realise the kid was home by himself, which means they were operating under the premise that some adults were around, and they still thought the best course of action was to break in and not knock on the door?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? What the hell? Talk about a forced plot!!!
The dumbification is real.
@@rovhalt6650 it so is! I did find out from another video that the did try to speak to an old lady who they assumed was his grandma, but because she only spoke German, or assumed she only spoke German, that was the reason they opted to break in. That's still dumb cos under that premise you can still talk to the kid!!!
Original reigns supreme.
Still such a great movie to watch during the holidays with the classics.
Both the original and Lost In New York are still the best and me and my family all gather together and watch them every Christmas season
Yes... Even with the Trump cameo
And Home Alone 2 is a close second
Leaving Home Alone at two films would've saved its legacy but when the original cast left Home Alone has been left to soppily rehash the same formula over and over with less and less soul each time.
The thing that's always bothered me about Home Alone 2 is that it focuses on mom again when it shouldve been more about dad. Dad screwed up this time. Not so much mom. And it wouldve helped develop dad more as a character
🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️ Hollywood really needs to stop remaking these classics. It's getting quite annoying.
Indeed, while nothing is 100% original, they should stop remaking older movies, and not bank so much on nostalgia.
@@trinaq Exactly 💯. They keep translating nostalgia to box office success
@@trinaq free guy was original
@FN-1701AgentGodzillaRangerPrime Ω it's a rip off then lol who cares its definitely a poor version of home alone.
@@trinaq Nostalgia is currently another name for " Milking "
Great video. I almost wasted my time and watched this.
Same
Me too
Shame because it’s not bad
I wasted my time, and yes I hated it and barely watched it without my walking away from the screen.
@@spyishere3054 if you barely watched it how can you judge it though
I can't imagine why they thought making the "villains" of this movie sympathetic, innocent, parents was a good idea.
Let's face it, Disney's attempts to make their villains more human have been pretty hit and miss lately.
This, Toy Story 4, and Mary Poppins Returns come to mind. At least their animated twist villains have an understandable method behind them.
Frozen: Let's deconstruct our love at first sight trope.
Problem: Hans suddenly being okay with killing Arendelle's princess comes out of nowhere, even if he was just marrying her for the throne.
Big Hero 6: Let's give Hiro someone to parallel his grief and thirst for revenge.
Problem: Why is Callaghan okay with killing his students, and didn't even bother to check if his daughter was alive.
Zootopia: Let's further our message about prejudice by making the person who did it a cute sheep woman.
The problem: We don't see much of Dawn's relationship with Lionheart to know why she's so against predators.
I was literally horrified for the McKenzies… Like these poor people. I shouldn’t have felt that, but here we are.
Especially when you take into consideration that unlike the burglars from the previous films who were only doing it because "WE WANT MONEY TO GET RICH" or in the case of 3, to working for terrorists, they're just two parents who want to pay off their debts just so that their kids could have a place to live. That's overall just depressing, and as a result, the traps scene - meant to be the comedic portion of the film, just like the other Home Alone movies - becomes overall just depressing and not fun to watch as you're rooting for the McKenzies instead of the main kid who's Home Alone - the one the film WANTS you to root for.
@@harrisonho8934 I wonder who the fuck thinking that the audience would relate to that spoiled brat. I have a very very strong feeling it must be self insert.
@@harrisonho8934 Exactly, like I couldn’t find a redeeming quality for the kid. Especially when he didn’t understand what a toy drive is and thinking that he’s a child in need… Plus the “meta” comment about leaving classics alone. Like, they should have left this alone.
I honestly really liked Home Alone 2. Yeah I know it's kinda the same thing as the first one but to be truthful I watch it more than the original.
Same here.
I thought I was the only person! I loved both but I especially love the second one personally.
Its a great movie!
Yeah
I love both home alone 1 and 2
I still can't get over that they cast asling bea, an Irish comedian with a thick Irish accent. And told her to do a posh English accent
Damn, they just keep pouring from that same empty cup.
Yep
i dont see people complaining when spiderman have 8 movies
4 Real tho & I didn't watch it movies ain't mandatory.
Man I would really watch a Home Alone with Kevin as a grown up being left home alone, I think it can work.
My only favorite thing in this new movie is the idea that Kevin became rich by creating home security for homeowners. Solid idea.
I did like the Diet Soda bombs though. It seems like something a kid would actually come up with.
And yes, even the bit where the bottle flies into Pam is realistic - people HAVE actually done that.
Filmmakers not all villains have to be understandable or sympathetic. What made the Wet Bandits work was that they were just bad guys robbing a house and all there is to it. Movies have been in the habit of doing this too much lately.
I feel like a movie about a married couple struggling at Christmas with Ellie Kemper and Rob Delaney would've been enough. It didn't need to have anything to do with Home Alone. From what the film presented of just their interactions and how they felt about their difficulties, it was all engaging enough to be its own movie.
2 and 3 are big contenders as my favorite. Because it’s not as widely discussed, I really like 3, not because it was new and didn’t strictly follow the McAllister arc, but because it had a funny and interesting story to tell that felt distinctly Home alone. You had a kid who was at odds with his neighbor who happened to look after him while recovering from Chicken pox. Pair that with workaholic parents and siblings who were at that teenage angst phase who lacked empathy, and you have a kid who had a lot to prove. Then you have the villains who were secret spies that were tasked with recovering a missile chip that would threaten American airspace. What made the whole thing mesh was the overall objective of who would end up in possession of said chip after it ended up in a toy car and getting swapped at the airport, prompting the spies to search every house. It might not be as popular, but 3 was indeed the last good Home Alone movie.
couldn't have said it better myself.
I'm damn tired of movies trying to humanize villains. Just let them be bad.
Lmao, not w Disney. ie. Artemis fowl
Like how they did cruella
As I get older I appreciate villains who choose to identify themselves as evil instead of villains who think that they're good.
Everyone wants to be good, that's boring. Why would someone want to be seen as evil? That's a more interesting question.
I think that's why Joker is such a great movie. Arthur chooses to be evil because the 'good' people are selfish bullies who only care about building themselves up by hurting other people, admittedly mostly through apathy.
You can humanize villians, but you shouldn't make them likeable
Or the later nerfed versions of The Grinch.
My ranking of all the Home Alone movies so far (you know they're gonna make another one in the future lol):
6.Home Alone 4:What a piece of garbage, I don't even have to explain why (Hint:"Kevin" "Marv")
5.Home Sweet Home Alone:(Posted my review of it somewhere in the comments) (Pretty bad, not as bad as Home Alone 4, but PRETTY BAD..)
4.Home Alone 5:This was a really "MEH" movie, once again it has more burglars, had some fun scenes and the traps were alright, don't hate it or like it, just MEH to me..
3.Highly underrated movie actually, not nearly as good as Home Alone and Home Alone 2, but I actually had fun watching it, I like how they tried it with new characters and more burglars breaking in and tried to make it different (kinda).
2.Home Alone 2:Really love this sequel! Sure it's kind of a copy and paste of the first Home Alone, but I still love watching it, I liked how this time they had Kevin in New York City! The traps are also really good! Solid Great Sequel! Definitely a classic!
1.Home Alone:Best movie in the franchise, will ALWAYS be the best movie in the franchise.Classic holiday movie! Nothing can top it off!
Is [3.] Home Alone 3?
Lowest to highest imo is Home Shit Home Alone (3/10), then Home Alone 4 (5/10), Home Alone 3 (7/10), Home Alone 1 (9/10), Home Alone 2 (9/10) has a slight edge over the first
Cute that you think Disney won't simply cut out the scene with the kid wearing a dress for the Chinese release like they did with the lesbian kiss from Rise of Skywalker.
So brave of them.
This movie makes The Fairly Odd movie with Drake Bell look like a masterpiece.
😂😂😂😂
I enjoy Home Alone 1 because of the atmosphere, pacing and positive moral message. Home Alone 2 I really enjoy Harry because of how resilient he is dealing with the traps and the his screams are legendary. Harry's screams to me are like the quick silver scenes in the newer x-men movies, they are the maraschino on top.
worst part of the movie is the doll plot: clearly the british kid had to have hidden the doll at the start of the movie...but instead they push it off onto a character with 0 screen time. all you had to do was have the kid say "you were kind of a jerk to me so i hid it in the closet", apologize, movie over. instead they do the goofy cgi shit... i still liked this a touch more than 4 but god damn it's rough.
This shouldn't be called Home Alone! The studio is trying to appeal to nostalgia (and failing miserably) but they are also trying to be politically correct (sorta)! The original was good, because there wasn't a worry if those traps were too dangerous or anything and the main villains were comical but also truly threatening!
Its called Home Sweet Home Alone, hence you were wrong from the start to think otherwise. They don't even care about you, just new generation of kids, and maybe the parents who happen to watch with them.
@@fromis.9 i bet your fun at parties
@@arroeducarlion4990 ofc
@@fromis.9No they weren’t. It has home alone in the name, if you are to blind to see, and it is even separated and in different text during the title sequence. I kinda do agree with the rest of your statement ( which is just a semi-restatement of the comment) but you really should observe the comment before replying.
@@BobBob-zh8ls its called home sweet home alone, not home alone 6 because they do not want people to think its just another carbon copy of the first one, by giving a twist to antagonist being the protagonist. everyone like you is blind to see the real meaning
part of the problem is There Aren't antagonists in this one. in the original, its pretty clear Harry and marv don't mind hurting Kevin Which becomes outright kill after going through the house.
another mistake this one makes is while Kevin lives it up at first he Does start to miss his family halfway in. Kevin is a brat But a more realistic child overall. we never see that in this one. If anything he's worse for taking the toy from the church toy drive
another point is the mother character. in the original, she could only get back to Pennsylvania not Chicago and is hitchhiking with john candy to get back. so she's doing a Hell of a lot more to get home faster
Even Kevin when with toothbrush he felt bad.
I never noticed his ticket get covered in milk! Wow, that’s some attention to detail!
Yeah stealing toys from a charity is about as low as one can get.
RIP John Candy & John Heard "the dad from the first 2 Home Alones"
I know the point this time was to make the bad guys be the good guys, could have been balanced out so much better, as seeing characters your cheering for getting beat up all the time is not fun. I get it that, that is what home alone is.
I just think they could have made it clear that the kid wasn't ALL bad as we first thought which would have allowed us to sympathise with both sides, and maybe it could have poked fun at how silly some of those traps were, honestly one of the best scenes to me was when the mum was fighting back with the bin lid blocking the shots. It could have easily been switched up that the "bad" guys were actually quite smart and didn't fall for such silly traps, which I think would have been a better choice.
Home Alone 4 makes Home Alone 3 look like a masterpiece and the reboot makes Home Alone 4 & 5 seem watchable
A lot of problems with these movies nowadays is how mean spirited they are its all about selfish unlikable people with no endearing qualities as opposed to characters who are flawed but are still charming and likeable.
This kid was straight up trying to murder these people. I know he thought they were trying kidnap him but they tried to explain so many times and he wouldn’t listen. I mean he has the internet, he could have called the police or his relatives multiple different ways, the parents could have handled it a bunch of different ways too. The traps weren’t even funny, they just seemed painful to watch. At least Harry and Marv were immortal, I don’t know how these people survived 😂
Nothing beats the original and the second. I wish they never made this reboot, I loved Kevin and he was so iconic, but in this movie max is just a unloveable obnoxious kid.
The biggest crime this movie commits is butchering angels with filthy souls. SHAME SHAME
We need a bank heist movie with Kevin as head of security!
Disney is dumping on all Classics, someone make them stop
I was so disgusted when they started using the old John Williams music, its so disrespectful to use such amazing music from the first two amazing home alone films to elevate this trashfire, and also who the hell were we supposed to be rooting for and booing for, The kid in this film really was the villain cause they made the "badguys" so understandable and sympathetic, like when they were getting hurt you felt so bad for them, this film was just so confused
its more disrespectful for you to be selfish
@Dominant Domination ofc you know nothing, since you are exactly proving my point
I watched it and yeah it was so bad. I grew up with the original Home Alone since I was young, but this, this was so tough to get through. It was more bad than Home Alone 3, and while I haven't seen Home Alone 4 and 5, they can't be as bad as Home Sweet Home Alone. When the Home Alone remake greenlighted a couple of years, I was not excited and by golly that's what I got.
"Home Alone 4 and 5 can't be as bad" oh boy what do I tell you... Home Alone 4 is WAY worse than Home Sweet Home Alone, and I did not like Home Sweet Home Alone at all.
@@extropian506 Well a few days ago I watched Home Alone 4 and 5 and they are bad. Home Alone 3-6 are just bad in their own way.
If this is a connected universe how is it so common for kids to be left alone without their parents
Why they gotta ruin Christmas like this? It's not even December yet.
Only good ones (in my opinion) are first ,second , third , fifth( its basically a remake of first two with little differences, it was pretty alright).
Just the first 2
yea, 3 deserves much more love now.
We all know the real reboot/adaptation of Home Alone that matters is Better Watch Out.
I think the first two are the best. The rest is pretty much the same story, that get’s worse by every sequel/reboot. At the second movie, despite being the same story as the first, it was in a different location and had Tim Curry!
I think they made the crooks more seen because they thought that the more lovable since Pam (Ellie Kemper who played in the office) is a lovable actress and they wanted to show the more lovable actors so that the audience might ignore the terrible plot and focus on the them instead, just my take on it
The one main difference only two movies are good the first and second and the rest are boring and meaningless like this one is
like ur life
The third one's not good? I think thats better than the 2nd one
@Dominant Domination I missed the part where it's my problem
This generation has gotten so lazy in comparison to the 90s when it comes to filmmaking
Bad is being stuck in traffic, bad is stubbing your toe, bad is your girlfriend being angry at you. This movie isn't bad its a damn dumpster fire and nobody deserves to watch this nightmare
1 and 2 classics 3 was decent everything after that suck 🤷🏾♂️
It was honestly really disappointing, the acting was mid, the home alone boy hero was not likeable, way too many slow many slow motion shots, the "thieves" weren't really thieves, everyone was WAY too forgiving, it wasn't really funny, very few laughs, it focused more on the "thieves" than the boy who was home alone..damn. 😕
And the editing was shit.
We don't need a 10 minute video explaining how bad this movie is when a 30 second advertisement did all that for us in the first place.
There's only Home Alone and Home Alone 2. That's it. None of the other movies count
I would include Home Alone 3, it's not as bad as everyone makes it tbh
@@themoviecritic1092 ikr
When you find out which companies and people are involved in the making, it really is no shock.
There are only 2 Home alone's in existence
You know it's bad when the movie itself states why people try to remake the classics
The trailer painted a pretty good picture of this disaster. I still agree with the kid when he said, “I don’t see why we have to share out house with every stupid relative we have” 🤷🏻♂️
Yeah the newest version was so awful! The reason behind the main character's motivations were just forced and convoluted. Also, Aisling Bea is Irish, not British. But yeah that kind of seemed weird to me too. This whole movie was a disaster and most of the acting was phoned in.
Also, how did the neighbors not hear all the noise Pam and Jeff make? It's not like they were being quiet at all.
@6:00 I think I just got “Mandelaed”because I could swear that the name of the that fake movie was “Angels with Filthy Wings”!
This is a movie that did not have to be made. You just can't remake classics.
While I’m gonna say it’s more a sequel than a remake, it still should never exist
As soon as Disney bought 20th Century Fox they immediatly gone to remake this classic
This movie is garbage but I did blow air out my nose at the “What a mcshame” line
Honestly, I don't know why they thought humanising the "villain" is a good move. I mean if they hid the couple's intention and then reveal the twist at the end, sure, it might work and I might even laugh at what they had to go through but since I know who they are and what their motivation are, its kinda painful to see what they went through and I can't help it but root for "the bad guys"
Whyyyyyy!!! Why did Pete Holmes have to agree to do this, dammit! i mean i guess now he's immortalized in a home alone movie that i can see his point of view how cool that looks 10 or 20 years from now or something, but this just looks sooo baaaad, and now i gotta watch it cuz my boi Pete Holmes is in it, he's fkin hilarious, love the guy, uuughhhh!
I remember Harry and Marv being likable characters too. But more in a sense that their reactions to situations were actually pretty funny
Imagine Max's mom coming home and seeing the house in disarray. What is he going to blame?
My ranking
1. Home alone
2. Home alone 2
3. Home alone 3
4. Home alone 5
5. Home alone 4
6. Home sweet home alone
I seen someone say that a good idea for a home alone movie would involve Kevin babysitting one of his brothers kids. And a couple of robbers try to steal from them, so Kevin teaches the kids how to build traps as they teach him about new age technology.
Like an uncle buck/ home alone film. 😎
Im gonna say it, i didnt hate this movie, it wasnt a chore to watch, i was entertained, though im not saying its great, its only ok, but its not terrible, it has issues, you care more about the villans then the "main protagonist", i feel like most people hate the re makes because their so attached to the original
Well the movie keeps reminding us about the original. The entire point is for people to watch it because it had the branding of the original, so don't blame people for thinking about the original when they are watching this
What an absolute joke of a movie, that "do you give you or are ya thirsty for more" in a british accent was so cringe and i'm british
It is not a movie I can fairly judge. It was meant for younger eyes. The OG and New York were classics for me. TBH even home alone 3 paved the way downhill. This movie... was made for money and not from passion. It is a No for me.
I cannot believe this is the actual Home Alone 3 without KEVIN.
Did you think we didn’t know that already?
6:06/ 10:33 is that the Same Church from the first Home Alone movie from the 90s where Kevin was when he meant the old man he was afraid of?
this new one doesn't hold shit over the first 2 HA films.
08:29 - I swear, if it wasnt mentioned that this is CGI I would have no clue. Same goes with the cold breath!
I watched Home Sweet Home Alone and it wasn't that good. For me, the best thing about that movie was seeing Buzz McAllister. It's a small role but it was great that an original Home Alone character was there. Funny enough, I did like Home Alone 3 but the original ones can't be beat. I still prefer the first Home Alone though.
Is that Erinn from the Office?
The first home alone movie will always be better than the sequels
Y’know what they should’ve done. They should’ve re-released the original home alone in cinemas for the thirtieth anniversary ( I know it’s the thirty first but because of COVID they couldn’t release it in cinema and you gotta release home alone during Christmas.) Far better than what we got and CHEAPER so I’m shocked Disney didn’t do it
Why do ppl watch this crap therefore funding it? STOP SUPPORTING GARBAGE MOVIE COMPANIES!!! Alright I'm done lol
The first home alone is everything 🙌 😍 😊.
No contest the original. It beats the “new one”by a mile in the 10 meter dash.
Title od the video:HOME SWEET HOME ALONE Is Bad!
Me:NO SHIT
The fact that the plot depends on the characters being stupid makes the movie even worse (as if that were possible).
They should have never made this movie in the first place
You can't beat the original! "Home Alone" and "Home Alone 2: Lost In New York" were way better than this garbage!
In this story the kid is the real thief.
I don't get why the kid in "Home Sweet Home Alone" was British either, yet lived in Chicago. If he was born in Great Britain, okay, but the filmmakers could have incorporated this kid not fitting in in America into the plot of the film.
If you’ve seen the movie, the park scene with the train has Steve Harvey as an emoji on the front of it.
5:42 the actress playing his mom is actually an Irish comedian
Home Alone 3 Will forever be my favorite.
I didn't know about the new version. But nothing beats the original
I agree, I couldn't finish the movie
Bruh, that Cena apology was amazing and I will forever be subscribed to you because of it.